Which of the words/phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below should replace the words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No improvement required’, mark (E) as the answer.
- However recent statements by the nation’s policy-makers indicate that the perception of this issue is changing. ‘Brain bank’ and not ‘brain drain’ is the more appropriate idea, they suggest since the expertise of Indians abroad is only deposited in other places and not lost.
(A) Announcement, opinion, graduates, put
(B) Declaration, acuity, students, placed
(C) Report, belief, scholars, dropped
(D) Assertion, discernment, learner, lifted
(E) No correction required
- Fort Ticonderoga was a small, decrepit British fort preserved by the British at the southern tip of Lake Champlain in upstate New York. It was a strategically essential fort in the French and Indian War, and was recognized as Fort Carillon.
(A) Decaying, destroyed, significant, notorious
(B) Feeble, retained, vital, identified
(C) Dilapidated, maintained, important, known
(D) Infirm, sustained, main, well – known
(E) No correction required
- Before the team was named the Cowboys, they were known as the Steers and then the Rangers. When the Cowboys’ first holder, Clint Murchison Jr., finally established on the “Cowboys,” he engaged Tom Landry as the team’s first coach.
(A) Described, vendor, developed, employed
(B) Called, owner, settled, hired
(C) Identified, possessor, completed, appointed
(D) Entitled, carrier, recognized, selected
(E) No correction required
- Then, sacred dances representing the harvest would be presented for several hours within the sacred circle, a large pit that also integrated a fire lit with a sacred branch that was strike by lightning. The ceremony would end with various other dances and services including one in which the entire village danced around the sacred fire.
(A) Executed, incorporated, smack, rites
(B) Achieved, indulged, spank, habits
(C) Made, involved, cuff, practices
(D) Performed, included, struck, rituals
(E) No correction required
- The turning point in the war, however, aroused on July 1, 1863, when Associate and Union armies met at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle that resulted was one of the bloodiest battles in American history. Eventually, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was driven away from Pennsylvania by Union general George Meade and his Army of the Potomac.
(A) Transpired, accomplice, followed, driven in
(B) Occurred, confederate, ensued, driven away
(C) Happened, ally, developed, driven off
(D) Taken place, co – conspirator, proceeded, driven through
(E) No correction required
- It was expected that banks would take advantage of the changing operational environment and improve their performance. Towards this end, the Reserve Bank of India initiated a host of measures for the creation on a competitive environment.
(A) Anticipated, receive, started, formation
(B) Estimated, acquire, begun, conception
(C) Described, obtain, instigated, development
(D) Projected, accept, established, configuration
(E) No correction required
- The King was soon joined by his troops and the children were still deepen in their game. The King ordered, “Cane them hard.” The children’s parents came running from the nearby village and said, “They are green, it was just a game, please grant them forgive.”
(A) Absorbed, swayed, immature, excuse
(B) Immersed, commanded, naive, pardon
(C) Engrossed, grasped, adolescent, reprieve
(D) Wrapped up, controlled, youthful, amnesty
(E) No correction required
- While the strategy appears to improve GDP growth and, thereby, reduce fiscal deficit for revenue resilience, such a strategy is burdened with risks.
(A) Seems, through, buoyancy, fraught
(B) Looks, during, rigidity, filled
(C) Employs, throughout, firmness, laden
(D) Utilizes, from, insistence, loaded
(E) No correction required
- The railroad was not the first organization to force regularity on society, or to illustrate attention to the importance of particular timekeeping.
(A) Association, strength, show, perfect
(B) Society, entail, give, accurate
(C) Institution, impose, draw, precise
(D) Foundation, bring, provide, correct
(E) No correction required
- Academic writing is the skilful elucidation and explanation of the dispute, which the writer has carefully examined and developed over a protracted period of time.
(A) Description, agreement, inspected, expanded
(B) Clarification, harmony, observed, extended
(C) Illumination, accord, studied, prolonged
(D) Exposition, argument, researched, sustained
(E) No correction required
Direction: Pick out the most effective word from the choices.
- Please___ the lights before going to bed.
(A) put off
(B) put out
(C) put on
(D) put in
- If the work men had not been tired, they_____ the work.
(A) would have completed
(B) would complete
(C) will complete
(D) will have completed
- He ____ his father rather than his mother.
(A) takes in
(B) takes down
(C) takes off
(D) takes after
- Sydney Carton , proposed to Lucio , but she ____ the offer of marriage .
(A) turned down
(B) turned off
(C) turned on
(D) turned out
- A daily is a paper that _______ every day.
(A) comes out
(B) comes by
(C) comes up
(D) comes of
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How many such pairs of digits are there in the number 421579368 each of which has as many digits between them in the number as when they are arranged in ascending order?
A) None B) One
C) Two D) Three
isko kaise karte the mai bhul gaya hu koi yaad dilawo…:))
4.2.1.5.7.9.3.6.8
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9
see 4 and 9 ; 4 digits in between both the orders
1 and 6…….5 digits
1 and 2 ..>.3 pairs total
nai smjha mam?
we have to see that when we arrange the digits in ascending order
how many pairs are there ..which have same no. of digits in between them in both the orders
like we have given 4.2.1.5.7.9.3.6.8 we ll arrange it in ascending order 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9
ab check kro ki in dono orders me se …u ll see 4 and 9 ka one pair
in both the arrangements there are 4 digits in between
likewise for 1 and 2 no digit in between and third is 1 and 6 ..5 digits in between
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means both lgana hoga to get command in new pattern questions?
koi bhi ek lelo….itna bhi kuch tough nhi hai…bus concept ko samjho achhe se..or practice karte rho daily ..3-4 months me it ll be like a cakewalk 🙂
Mam ques solve kr do maine post kiya hai..
yes see pradeep solved above
ok thank you maam
Smj gya
Nhi smj aaya Ambika explain kr do yr again
Just count no.from acending order start frm 4 …and do same frm reverse from 8 jaha jaha same no.mil jaye counting me wo pair.
Like 4——9
1——6
In reverse…1—–2
So total 3 pairs
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Ambika mam ne niche explain Kiya..wo dekh lo
Sure
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However recent statements by the nation’s policy-makers indicate that the perception of this issue is changing. ‘Brain bank’ and not ‘brain drain’ is the more appropriate idea, they suggest since the expertise of Indians abroad is only deposited in other places and not lost.
(A) Announcement, opinion, graduates, put
(B) Declaration, acuity, students, placed
(C) Report, belief, scholars, dropped
(D) Assertion, discernment, learner, lifted
(E) No correction required
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C option is not appropriate here ???
since the expertise of Indians abroad is only deposited in other places and not lost…………….deposited ???
if we take C then for report there should be the word indicates ..not indicate so it is not correct one
hmm thanku 🙂
A,B,C do the work in 10,20,30 days respectively.they started work together.after ‘h’ days A leave the work.A’s work delivered to B. B leave the work 12 days before completing the work remaining work is done by C.What is the value of ‘h’ and who worked more.???
a.1
b.2
c.3
d.5
e.None.
h(a+b+c) +(h-12)(b+c) +12c =1
h(11/60)+(h-12)5/60 +12/30 =1
16h/60-1+12/30=1
16h/60=2-2/5
=>16h/60 =8/5=>h =6
so ans is e
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11 correct.4 wrong